Australia's annual greenhouse gas emissions for the year to December 2015 were est. 529.2 Mt CO-e and annual greenhouse gas emissions for the year to December 2017 were estimated to be 533.7 Mt CO2-e.
By the year to June 2019 (and with 6 months of the year yet to go) greenhouse gas emissions were estimated to be 532.0 Mt CO2-e.
Now the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government has always been fond of implying that figures such as these do not matter - saying that Australia is only a minor contributor to global emissions at est. 1.3% of the combined world total.
However, there is no stepping back from the fact that Australia is a significant factor in spreading the cancer of greenhouse gas pollution across the Earth's atmosphere.
In part because successive Australian federal and state government have encouraged investment in the mining of our natural resources.
Just 100 of all the hundreds of thousands of companies in the world have been responsible for 70.6% of all global greenhouse gas emissions that caused global warming in the 27 year period between 1988 and 2015, according to The Carbon Majors Database, a report published by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in 2017.
These
100
fossil fuel industry companies
can be broken down into the following categories:
41
publicly listed investor-owned;
16
privately held investor-owned;
36
state-owned; and
7
state producers.
The
top 50 of these companies are:
China
Coal
Group
Saudi
Arabian Oil Company (Aramco)
National
Iranian Oil Co
ExxonMobil
Corp operating
in Australia since 1895
Coal
India Limited
planning
to acquire assets in Australia
Petroleos
Mexicanos (Pemex)
Russia
Coal Co
Royal
Dutch Shell PLC operating
in Australia
China
National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) operating in Australia
BP
PLC operating
in Australia
Chevron
Corp operating
in Australia
Petroleos
de Venezuela SA (PDVSA)
Abu
Dhabi National Oil Co
Poland
Coal
Peabody
Energy Corp operating
in Australia
Sonatrach
SPA
Kuwait
Petroleum Corp
Total
SA operating
in Australia
BHP
Billiton Ltd operating
in Australia
ConocoPhillips
operating
in Australia
Petroleo
Brasileiro SA (Petrobras)
Lukoil
OAO operating
in Australia
Rio
Tinto operating
in Australia
Nigerian
National Petroleum Corp
Petroliam
Nasional Berhad (Petronas)
Rosneft
OAO
Arch
Coal Inc operating
in Australia
Iraq
National Oil Co
Eni
SPA operating in Australia
Anglo
American operating
in Australia
Surgutneftegas
Alpha
Natural Resources Inc operated
in Australia
Qatar
Petroleum Corp
Pertamina
Kazakhstan
Coal
Statoil
ASA operating
in Australia
National
Oil Corporation of Libya
Consol
Energy Inc operating
in Australia
Ukraine
Coal
Oil
& Natural Gas Corp Ltd operating
in Australia
Glencore
PLC operating
in Australia
TurkmenGaz
Sasol
Ltd operating
in Australia
Repsol
SA operating
in Australia
Anadarko
Petroleum Corp
Egyptian
General Petroleum Corp
Petroleum
Development Oman
Czech
Republic Coa.
Between
them these 50 companies were responsible for est. 63.2% of the
cumulative global greenhouse gas emissions between1988 and 2015
according to the CDP report.
The
report also recorded global emissions for the year 2015 in which the
following companies were listed as contributing significantly to
global greenhouse gas emissions:
Shenhua
Group Corp Ltd
(2% global CO2-e) operating
in Australia
Shandong
Energy Group Co Ltd
(0.7% global CO2-e) operating
in Australia. In the face of the increasing negative impacts from climate change, Australia allows 22 of the world's top polluters to conduct business in Australia without even a pretence of limiting their greenhouse gas emissions.
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